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GAGE Satter we must, and scatter we will, Streming at broadcast all the dry long-, Tirouglt the valley or through the hill, The Need.: or right or seeds or wrong, Every thought is in embryo ; Every word is n planted's ; Look to it well !hit the seeds ye s'etw Are for the flower and not the weed Foil• and vice pity' snwn in spring, 0! trn4t- tne, when harve4t class hive come • Will tinthing,, to In tottood:s storehouse bring, To make g!ad shouli_ for the hlrve3: Too ot.en a prec'oli how *44 spent • is seeming p!eavare4 in rofchill time, Thit makes ni a wh''e !ire lon's regent; For tEe-frtrii or sowin g i; sin and crime Scatter we meat. and . scatter 'we will. Strewing at brwmica:t where'er we go le life's galley, or nn ite hilt, Seeds for hoot Inity's weal or woe. Beware! beware ! le4t the seed 4 ye sow Be le;xed.Wi , h ;nalice, end pride, and Itrice For the wheat and tare 4 toge•her grow, Till the revere bind in the field of life: Cull the good Reed for the coaling hour, Tirtt all thy days m ty be c Rio, and free-, r.rermore pincki !g the planted flower, Binding golden ‘ltearits for eterni'r. From Arquir's hems 31t izine THE LIN Lif THE AFTERNOON. BY ♦IRGI\TA F. TOWNSEND On the many joys of life he gazed still, with eße eyes_ of childhood.—llyperim. "Rowena! Rowena!" .' Well. uncle Harry 1" The voice, soft and clear, wandered throrgh the long hall, and down the broad snit cage, to the gentleman who stood at it 4 font " It's going to rain, and the air's very damp. Voti mu,tn't ride out thin afternoon. Now mind what I say, child." And a moment after, the twinain , .; back of the street door sent a sullen echo throuzii the buildintr. "'Now, if that icri't too bad," ejacula ted Rowena Strong, as she pettishly tossed down on the table the new fall tat, which for the last half hour had invrosgedher attention, and walked to the window. Juct look at her a moment, as she stand's them wilt the crimson Curtains throwing a tich artistic glow over the face she has drawn close to the window pane. It is not a handsnm3 fret—no heightening colors—no harmony of surroundings can make it this ; hut. it is piqUant and interesting. and, I am half inclined t..) think, the pout aat um; the full red lips is rather lie- corning than otherwise. , Rowena Strong is an orphan, and tigr rich uncle's pet and heiress. Her memory can look over sofne half score . .pcyeare, to the time when she lived in. p. little ,brown house in the country,. with het widowed mother. Mfrs. Strong had mirried in oprisi to the r will of the ,arnu), mitt for many, years there Was but liuli inter criu—rsei,etieeen them. Wnen her his. t , iand died: and left her in poor lealtb, with scarcely. any Means for suppiwt, the widow was too proud to appeal to her relatives for the aid she needed. Two years went by, and Mrs. Strong lay on her dying bed ; and, ‘i'hett she on Rowena, the' woman's. pride yielded -to the mother's heart. She . • wrote to. her brother. A few weeks before, he had lain his 7 young wife un dei the summer 'grass ; and it was with d softened heart that ho hastened to the death bed of his eibter. Prom her dying ban& he receised• Rowena, and pledged hitaaelfto In in deed and i=2lll • _ - - •." "I.* '•; " •• - W:. 1 . 7 ' 1.3 " ti ; ft r. " i - • z-1,3,371, pi.„ f.••et.l - . 7 2I: • I ' . , :'_;•!1 3: • ".. .- A • - : „ fif, , i i truth a fathet , to' her... :. •' -, i , .-hen, ; to :fre * 4yaUt.oM.ti:ights .' ::ttie ' y: :He fhadjulfilled bis:.promise well. breakout of the bur.s 1 N . Ta. ll, Klia' .6 Rottiena had.. became:the itiol of the a sad s'l'M to_ tell you of.Mattle: r: rich tnerchar.t; audlier life flowed up .. "After, her father.died, the prOperty to it;i'iv, : entieiti - yeah, pictuf- - . was found very MUehinVelVell,'"aiid it . .• . esque,,peaceful iiyer. - is known that fer, several years past; ~.. Rowena,was by. no.. means. a ;nova .Mrs. EngliSh" and h , ei: 'daughter have' writer's incarnation of all irenosSilile. livid Mostly ' be' mortgage's of their sweettiess . andgoodnessl She had het hetne; whiCh yOu, are' aware 'was the I faults; and her petted, ,Itix.nrious • life 1 former'.; doWery. 'Last . month' she' was not calculated to evolVe the noble was takeii . 'severelY ill ; "indeed, 'her' . , el.atacteilstic of het: nature. - paPa . I Bet underneath all the accidental or i says:" The mortgages ()tithe old place indigenous faults of her nature, lay ai, are guile ekhan;ted; . and they have warm, true heart, and a substratum of j now no means4'f subsistence: I tie . good coinmou sense.. Rowena- Stood.' lieve' it would kill prier Mrs. English a few moments, . dubiously Searching out-right to le tie her old home, though I the clouds with her blue eyes, and then i how they 'can Ton' stay' there, is 'a ,g.., , the large' di tips began to patter on the -1 mystery to me: ' • - ' ' roofs. . .1 4. " And now I-have a secret to con ! " Nell, there's tie use fretting about .'• fide " to' you, — Maclrcre I ' "Matt'e's 3 it," she said, draWitig the curtains to- ; 1 beauty his more than fulfilled the rare I gether with a. sigh.: 4 .t.l.t's going to j p"romise of her'childhoo r d, aiid'her face' pour; that's plain enough \ to be seen,* + is a pictUre ; a: Sweet, but rather sad and I Must make the.b . est of it. How ' one; ivith its Clear, Grecian - contour.: ( provoking, though, when I Wanted to its lips like Juno-rose-lin& filled with [wear out my :beauty . , gala neW liar so ! meadow deiv, and' her hair and-:eyes lbadly ! Not. a soul will come hei - e lof br o wn..: 7 bronze and hazel brown....' Ithis afternoon, : either, and it'll be as i •' Well; Squire Allan—you remem ! dull as Sate-prison all the afternoon. l'ber him—has taken afancs to her ! + I must get hold of something to read; ' Did ever hear anything so. _ üb- . you • ..•., -f, or 1 shall certainly,die of ennui. before : surd I 'There are - only fifty years dif iuncle Harry getS• back."• And. she ; ference in their .ages ! Two weeks, { I went to the table and whirled over ago. the gra.y-haired gentleman pro-. the uncut leaves of several mapzines + posed to Mattie, as he did finty-five I that lay thereon. As she. liAlesslY ', nears ago . to her &rood ni.oher. YOu 'I glanced among - the pages, her ,eyes ! know he is iMinenselY. Weaithy, and lighted tot a French sentence, and she ; would.surroum Mrs. English and her . { paused to translate the latter portion daughter with all the luxu:ies whi . eli aft : "Et ?nil soit . dit flue jai rendu their, previous lives render necessary. 1 nit Rooms heurcu' xinm I a rte. i " I don't know but for her mother's . i I " I wonder ifthat can be raid of me." ; sake Mattie English will marry old 1 murmured the young lady. as she laid i 'Squire Allen ; but I do know she had I down the book ; and, folding her hands rather die than do this. Poor girt! I behind her, she walked thoughtfully i My heart aches Whenever I look into _ . . lup a:id down the reign.. • 1 her pale, Sad face. -. . , -. j " Let's see ; here lam twenty years j " But, dear me, 'Rowena, I've gotten lold, aid yet I can't think I've 'ever to the bottom my fourth page, and .made one being really happy in all my not . comarnce4 telling, yen all I have to 1 life. It multea me feel tad to say, it, i tan, si.--:— . -" . . . . I for I don't lietievsl'in any more self- : But, reader, we 'charitably infer isli than other people.: I've given. a , you areSaanliar with the cenclUsionS i good deal to beggars, now and then ;' lof sche -l-airl letters. Suffice it, this iand there's that poor family that lived i one, did not lack the usual Saccharine round the all 4: Didn't I chthe up elements. 'Rowena read over the last all the children in nice, warm, shilling page twice. Then, she reunied her .I 1 delaines ? They looked just as dirty walk. . . $l.OO L 25 EOM in two ssieeks though, as if I. hadn't touched them. And that threw cold water on, all my benevolent projects. It wasn't right to de discouraged so ca•ily, I s' pose ; but now I should really like to feel as if I'd performe . d one reaCy good act—something that would require sell-ilenialand exertion on my pa; t, and—" I „ Jtit then there . ivas a knock at the chamber door, and domestic put her head inside, f' Here's a letter as has just come fur ye, Miss Ruuy !" The young lady caught it eagerly, and, with a little scream of delight, recognized the hand-writing: 'it wt tLat abet old schoolmate', Julia Gil wan, between whom and Rowena had always existed a warm intimacy. They had known each other when the former lived with her widowed mother, in the ltttle brown cottage in the country, and the child-afrectinn had strengthened with their yeao3. Julia was the daughter of the village doctor, of course, her stCial . p')sition was then so p t , H ,w - to R.-wena's ; had in uo ‘Vie influenced her choice of her , fi as h en the 'brow n cottage was (3c.itanged.for the luxurious city . hi,me, .disinterestedness, %yds fully repaid. • - Eve' y year, the people Who' lived opposite:, saw the sweet j face 'of the doctor's daughter beaming out of RO wena's chamber windows, .and - when. the wind carried. their'i4iices , across the street, it seemed lilac b. sudden Ufa break of .music, , . . . . Rowena . brnke the , , seal, utaniturfill of its filiwety device; and read eageily, the letter ; but the latter- part especi: ally rim acted lier attention, aitd thus it "You,remen3ber, darling gowena, our. old Achoolmate, Mani(' . .Eoglish. Can you not tee . het now, with' her bronze biowii and her; eyes' wearing just the color of ihertnute, EISIO 6=12M11 Dplio:ro'.l'6 . .tfit PUNCH' LES -OP. DEMO C RACY, AND TH . E: D I sg.St,LNATIoy, ; OTERAT ME: . AID 'NEWS. 7 , - ,c - QppE4§To. - try . i,RAt.;:f.tiii' .-I .ci3p,t,ikiyy,:rA.;:' . JANUARY '' 17,--1856 E ‘`lio'W I wish I could help her— dear. little, Matti° Eaglish. _:How clearly her ":sweet .seems looking down on me now ; and 1 can almosl feel myfingeTswindingthrough Lher rich calls! To. think of her rn - t rying that gray . -haired, beiit-over,l wrinkled-face.- Squire Allen—giving her . swe . et youth to his age. It makes me shudder. • If I could only prevent it in some wl—even a few hundied dollars might y do some good fbr a lit tle while. Uncle Harry would give the this for myself, hat come to asking .it for other • people"—and Rowena shook her bead doubtfully. a I h'aven't but fifty dollars by- me ; —stop—yes I have ! There's that five hUndred, uncle Harry g-rve me to buy a difiminid set: If I 'should tell him I'd concluded to wear the obi pearls, and keep the Money for anoth . - . er purpose, he'd only pinch my ear, and say "'I W,w a' changeable minx," and" emltd easily inchse' the bills and send them' to Mattie; -"and neither . she nor any Wily ele 'WOuld- IJa the But' I want the- dia: mond set terribly, 'to iwoar ' , Mrs: CliaPinan's P'aitY' next Week— HoW'cliarring 4 w‘iiuld . look : .With the .bitiehrocade' . pnelel'Hacry prorilise'd me ! • Ilk tiien i;OOi:' .l lklkf.tte 7 EngliSh., :How couTjl L,lio. ao„selfish as:tn think .of. diamotas, wheizi- her,' life's happiness -is -at stake And here, too; is die 'opportunity I' was louglng . for;.:of doiti g;ii4 'liefOre Julia's,letter came. Godhas, sent..it me, I -know: not -wait another moment." • t - R.svena StiimOnyned - bastily to tier irriting desk and inere 'vi'as• a light in'her blue eyes, and - 'a uess rising over het whole face Nithich no diamond's could tiave girma it.. , -She'stclod at •the window,- looking out sadly onihe sun, that *as' going =SO : . in ea) ry liekind the' liars hilt tisim:: 're had teen one Of those Novembe'it' s daYie that tang their gray, glnomy bordering dn . the 'iithite ;skirls cif winter, and "rcrfr the wind crak'begniniqi . th take epthi . the Tear: - With a Mir . the • 'rrintirner Caine" dnwntrinni:the mpuntains,' and wand ered th'reliL'r,l) the short, dry'grass mead nc . and up . .1? -. 1*" . ..5:0g1,1 the,- forests. The gray cl'on - Lis thirkened I Nfil‘i•nader {ace out at: the %%i . nciovi arew • - • • I coula ilecritie it. with its clearly - cut profile, its large, Tong= laoled, melti;'w eyes, its . flill.drunping and the rich 'cues 'tliat hung :ail dhout, it. Ab s . Me!: this a faint" sug- g.esstipn . (if its beauty • .." The_hiyti - ie, a large; Cisbioned; bnti:ery respectable wooden stood insome . iii‘staece from the road; hot the whale had -a 'bare, .desertecT kind of a..forA, which the season alone shiwnld'imt bave g.iven 1T will he here to mired . Mattie" English; still looking off' at the clouds: — " And I must decide . my rate. d-od help 'me ! tWoulttrath er doWri hitt') same' kitchen, and toil there the:Veriest driidge, all the clayS of inflife, than marry. that rich, its attractions. • . oldßUt pilot. mother; she Julia qilman's small figure and • ..- will starve, or he dependent ortTitri- sweet face are . opposite . her. The ty, if Ido not do this; h know the delicate - Saxon features, 'the small , neighbors (Dr. Gilman especially,) mouth i the slightly tinted cheeks,•with havetiecretly,helPeif fOr months, the blue eys,and rich. yellow hair, and we' haven't money in the house alt, ether, seem like an incarnation of buy another meal. dear. moth- ; young, beautiful girl-hood. er ! When /: think :of her failing "Now; Reeuy, darling, itis too bad," heaith,her,former life of ease and 114- in the first vauseof the con versation. which. had. set. between. them, ury, : l know I ought, to srcrifice my 'an uninterrupted current for the lait self for. her; It would • kill me CO see her suffer; and she cannot brave pew- two' hours; " I must not stay here any erty with the strong heart and. young longer, : in this dusty traveling dress., health that I hare. But to think of .1 t i . isn't 'treating you with proper res that. old man's being my Ausband I shall go and charge it this How it makes me shudder. "Our home shOuld he; the • mornent." proudest _either," laughed in all Meadaw. Brook," he said", " and noWeita, as she pushed- ba'ck her fiend intP the chair, and then seating herself "silks and should add new lustre . to my beauty. . on its arm, she continued, " Now, I. " And with these I' shall be bought have told-you' all about Coarfte, and and sold." There was. a scornful .it is settled"you ale tti be bride's-maid. working of the pale, proud 'face, but I I. want to hear about sof nebocly else's the next moment is, softened, for an- - matrimonial affairs. YOU remember, other memory had come up to her you wrote me you'd 'a long st:s heart. tell, when you came, about Kittle English and Paul Stebbins. Julia's face brightened: "O'a. yes, I remember; but it's a great 'secret., I You'll promise,, -solemnly, never to, divulge r "Solemnly, never."*: • " Well, you know that some two . years .ago.: Mettle refused 'Squire Al len., All of a' sudden' she seemed to become . Very happy, ,and went about the house singing like a May bii ti, and making preparations for her brother to go doWII to Maryland, and pass the winter.' Everybody wondered, but nobody knew where they obtained . the money tu.do this ; but, at all events, Mrs:. English :went South, the old house was closed up, and Mattie ob tained a. situation as governess ih Mrs. family fur, the • winter. She studied, too, very hard, all ber.letstiti;; and in the, sp ring there was an opening - 1 in the Academy for an assistant teach— er.' • Mattieacceptedllie situation, and last Tune her'mOther retained from the South with greatly iiminved as papa predicted. They rented the. old homestead, for it •was theirs no "Oh! what will Pizut say, when he returns and hears of it!" And now she has lain hey forehead against the window, and the tears are struggling up to the long!a , died eyes. "He nev er told me he loved roe, with his lips, but his eyes have a thousand times.— I know, too, if was bee au..m. his uncle wanted him to marry that Bristot. bei ret,iA; that he went on this long. journey. Pone fellow ! He did not like to of fend his rich old uncle by refhsing. 'Win ; and then Paul is poor, and had no home to offer me.. Ent -he meant to, before he returned,'andthen--Oh ! hoUr happy we might Irave been !" Great sobs were • shaking the :poor girl's' frame, now;. for a -feiv years up the future, Ole saw 'a little Avhite -cot tage, green vines over-rapping it, and the great stone Souse of the milliOnabe, with its Gothic front, and Grecian ,tatnes, seerivid likea prison as it loomed up before her. At that moment, a quick, emphatic cllfof the hid house-knocker rotised- Mattie, and with an exclamation. It tviil wakeif mamMa,". she hurried to the door, careless of • hoc , tear-stained UM ".Here's a letter for.. y0u,.1 ma'am,7' said thepoithoy, aihe held it: up, eye ing the wet cheeks curiously. It was: is crop New .York, and Made. could :: notreeoguize the delicate bait , disguiied. airogra pby of the ad dress.- ;She hurried back: to the .half darkenod sitting • room, and opeoe4, her letter .by the, light of e eriudow - , Several bills fell at her feet. There were only ; these ,word _on a. sh e et of note paper: "Use ?lee:e t :and do not riff 'Siuiie Allen." .• • Halt believing it was all a dream, she ,gathered - Theie were five' liuiicied dollais. SVOIeri . Y•; bTes •sea tnitif; Eiii4 MEZ lish• ~Oh,t if Rowena Strong could. tilty have ;united iuta.that •chl: room, with the,night shadows choking. up ;he, grin ; nets, :and seen Mattie English, asfaint , with,that otierwliuirniog joy, she stink dotvn.nnherkneesp mOrniuritig!'SavO! saved! • Vatherja4eaven,,how ,•• I thank thee . • .T%ioyeariltad . passed. It was in the late bla;,,autl , , one•_of..those days, that arc the. Spring'ls, The fresh, fragrantwindeame up from the fa7roftfield, and circulated through the great heart of the city, sad the sunshine . golden folds all over it. 13y .: the openeharnher window, o f handsome brick dwelling,in oneof.tlre. pleasantest streets, .two yauag ladies were siiting,,and the wind often drew aside,the curtaius; and:mhowad them, to the .people. opposite ? . or ..earsied down to the paiser 7 by, ,-some sweet, sudden outbreak of_girli.4.l) laughter. Xon -would . have kow _ Rowena .gki.ong ; at once,. reale=r; . but, though her face, ha.d•pot lust its bright, piqu ant.character, it lad. toned down into an expression. of womanly 'feeling and eardestnes;'which greatly' heightened longer, and'Alattie's lips were alwzys foil' of smiles as ; h.c.r brown eyes were efliglit. • ... Mu. the • Cream: of ...my story is to contd. - . Last winter Paul Stebbins came tiorne:—[YintromembeePatil; Ro- Wenal He - was' the handSoinest boy rt 'the . academy', wheUyeutirld I went to,the district, school.: lie soon be came a•daily visiter at • Mrs - HiS uncle•was terribly • aligrj , when it camp ' •tri his ears, and', threatened to .cut .Paul off With a sriillinb. Bid his spirited nephew informed,,him .he had obtained- a situation .at.the South, in some mercantile-business,-which would sup Ply.-all his arid Mattie's wants. "So the orusty - old - :baehelcir had to swallow his chagrin as:bestihe might, :attltittPaul ii his fitTorite,- will doubt- ~-~' !MIEM less stake him hie brit : Thaj►'will liis~ married reason Mattis could nut accept Jdiirj invitation rci Jitte•hd . your wedding " You know 'SqUire Allen lilt' nisi riot! a - 'B beau . . People i*y it's the one Paul's uncle de4nea fir? Last week. Niattie - awl nods • past their `new, splendid stone dwelt , , • 4 , 2 _„ t - "1 In ugbed, Anti whi ' . . . you might, Nava ,beeu mi s tres s of that magni4eence r •. : ; answered. with a siiadder.,:. • an4 . :l ..3140u14 have bus: fur on e . na meles s , unknoivn &lona." ....What do you irkeari,•Mitttie looked rna . Am& . • her eyes filled. Wiiiktears. haver . .• ricver breathed' it to a ny, . she said,, " 'but - mamma and Paul; but licit/ trustr: you, Julia. It ,V:1.3 just at stindpyru . „. , (how well I remember 41} and wa expecting 'squire s" it that evening.. (for it wai the one be bad ; spec'lfieid,l„,. to he:tr my:decision whether Iwoulii' be bis wife: "'My 'tnatiler‘ . va,i - dying slowly starvation was staring tui in the and Isaid, in : my dasporithm, save my mailer; I will tell him be. his wife. . . . "'Just then,. a letter map. for -1 opeued.it,and _found five lAundre.r., dollars : witlt taese wards, ." Use this. ; and do not ingrrij Squire Allen." Ths:,.: letter bore no• other "date or namo-.. That money was my earthly sal vatiori- You know, Julia, all that enabled cow.: to do. And to that unknown - friend d. so: I owe, it, that I am not this day. flub-. a' wretched wife of thatgray-hairiid,oll'r. man, 'the; miserable mistress - of yondo4-;/ great mansion 1. • ...Oa, howl . have prayed - for - th-jri giver of that gift; how I-have iongecArt to Gee him °rimy, and sarvihat and know to whom L owe and -- all. bliss of the present; all the ecitacy thiAing I shall be Paurs• wife? , 4.And don't ycni eipect evertaknoio; this lqattiel' • Hardly, Julia, till T learn• it there,' avid her eyes-- -.thy, Reetta... pan are crying!' " i can't help it; Julia," and Ruv►a na's head dropped on her' friend' r shoulder, while teais of exquisite joy. rolled dawn her elie'elci. ' - . Julia had a sympathetic-little hew. •. and the . sobs cane ,up. to . herthrua~ so fast she could not finish 'her story.. - At lant the door bell rang loudly. R walla sprang up., with blushefro9ini, over her cheeks. "That io Charlo." . , she said;." I always know his ring,'" " And here's my traveling . 'clies can't he preseatea .to him in , criel*Julia, and with a liitle the Dare contemidation terri bl an occurrence; she bounded iew4r,l; het trunks in the next room.: Constaßt occupriuu piemits tau: tam How to do much. -Locke says tits' way is, to do one think at a time. - He shall become immortal woo lip etit to be stoned by one without taut.,) Levity iu rneauer, leads to laxityit, principle. A great man_wil! neithor trany7ar on a worm, not cringe before a kin r" r Glid heard the 6eatt without -that words; blit he never hears 'tile :vrol l ddr: withoutthil heart. • '• 4':•"11." Excess of , ceretuouy.rhown:_rcant oft breeding; that civility is the ...1144,« which excludes all soperPtuJus form ality. . . . not. the tio %TUN grow when !bet, drink in the, ruin. drops So,. viitues flourish when they are ed by , tears. 4 " • "If !k(thristiao is a shoe-black," 4. 4 Jahn Newton," tie . ought to be th.p r bast ib the. village." He that doiti good _ without pod, pulls down with,9uolll,ll3loll be. UP tiai other -••- - 7131 rrm 0 - ri..... , tr. .o. zult-o. BIG T:rsl':-.7 , . , ..:',1(1:101.1. - . ,"' ( a i l• 'I t) : -„ 762 .. 477. g lEBEI